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020			_a9781421422596 (pbk. :acidfree paper)
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050	0	0	_aJK 275 _bL951w 2017
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100	1		_aLuger, Stan, _d1956- _eautor.
245	1	0	_aWhat American government does / _cStan Luger, Brian Waddell.
264		1	_aBaltimore : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c2017.
300			_a385 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe significant state -- The tax state -- The welfare state -- The national security state -- The domestic security state -- The regulatory state -- The developmental state -- The moral state.
520			_a It has become all too easy to disparage the role of the US government today. Many Americans are influenced by a simplistic anti-government ideology that is itself driven by a desire to roll back the more democratically responsive aspects of public policy. But government has improved the lives of Americans in numerous ways, from providing income, food, education, housing, and healthcare support, to ensuring cleaner air, water, and food, to providing a vast infrastructure upon which economic growth depends. In What American Government Does, Stan Luger and Brian Waddell offer a practical understanding of the scope and function of American governance. They present a historical overview of the development of US governance that is rooted in the theoretical work of Charles Tilly, Karl Polanyi, and Michael Mann. Touching on everything from taxes, welfare, and national and domestic security to the government's regulatory, developmental, and global responsibilities, each chapter covers a main function of American government and explains how it emerged and then evolved over time. Luger and Waddell are careful to both identify the controversies related to what government does and those areas of government that should elicit concern and vigilance. Analyzing the functions of the US government in terms of both a tug-of-war and a collaboration between state and societal forces, they provide a reading of American political development that dispels the myth of a weak, minimal, non-interventionist state. What American Government Does represents a major contribution to the scholarly debate on the nature of the American state and the exercise of power in America
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government.
651		4	_aEstados Unidos _xPolítica y gobierno _92202
700	1		_aWaddell, Brian, _eauthor. _97963
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